Assessment of Rural Farming Households WTP for Fertilizers and Agrochemicals in Kwawara State, Nigeria

International Journal of Agricultural Management and Development

卷:4

Ademoye Emmanuel Akinboboye, Fadipe¹  Jubril Olayinka, Animashaun¹  A.A., Adigun¹ 

[1] Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, University of Ilorin, PMB 1515, Ilorin, Nigeria .;

关键词: WTP;    Agrochemicals;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Given the specific geographic and spatial location of ruralareas in developing countries, to bring agrochemical tothe rural farming households, it is argued, may have to comeat a cost over and above the normal price it is sold in market.To this end, this work focuses on the willingness of ruralfarming households to pay more than the mean averageregional retail price for agrochemicals in Kwara state, NorthCentral Nigeria. Questionnaire was administered to 100randomly sampled in the two agricultural development zones(ADP) in the study area. Descriptive statistics and the LogisticBinary Regression model were fitted to examine factors thatinfluence respondents’ decision to pay more than the prevailingaverage prices for access to agrochemicals in the study area.Findings indicated a high level of awareness of agrochemicaluse and modal responses to quantities used include: fertilizers(41-50Kg/ha), herbicides (<10liters/ha), and pesticides(<10liters/ha) on the cultivation of yam, cassava and maize,which were the dominant arable crops in the study area.About 90% of the respondents purchase agrochemicals fromtheir personal savings and less than 10% of the respondentsgot their agrochemicals from other sources (governmental,developmental agencies, ADP and farmers’ cooperative). Furthermore,88% (p<0.01) of the respondents indicate willingnessto pay more than the current average price to have access toagrochemicals and the logistic regression reveals that level ofeducation (P<0.01), had a positive relationship with respondents’to willingness to pay more for agrochemicals in the studyarea. Recommendations were made towards encouraging expandeduse of agrochemicals throughenhanced marketingstrategies that will facilitate contact of marketing agents toprospective customers located in the rural communities.

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